I wanted to make a cute striped quilt for my little man that is on the way. I have seen some on Pinterest like this one: Source: littlebirdiesecrets.blogspot.com via Heather on Pinterest that I love but when it really comes down to it I don't have the energy or time to make one-plus standing in the fabric store trying to pick out all the matching fabrics and then waiting for them to be cut is really more than I can handle right now. But finding a striped piece of fabric in the clearance section that I can make into a cheaters quilt-now that I can handle. I found this piece of fabric in the clearance section at JoAnns. I instantly thought, "I can just sew along the stripes and make it look like a stripe quilt that I pieced together." I was planning on buying a piece of fabric for the backing but the other day when I was in the thrift store I found a quilted mattress pad (it had plain white fabric on one side and batting on the other plus the elastic band around the whole edge to fit over a mattress). It was in super good condition and only $1.00 so I bought it. I cut the elastic band off the whole thing leaving me with one solid quilted piece of fabric. I cut it to match the front piece I had bought, pinned them together and then sewed along each stripe. I finished the edges with some seam binding and the whole thing was complete in a couple of hours. It is not perfect but I love the finished product and I love that it cost very little and took very little time. So the cheaters method to making a stripe quilt is to find striped fabric and quilt along the strips.